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The stock market fetish

The most recent turmoil in the stock market caused by Donald Trump’s ill-considered policy to impose tariffs on the entire world, has brought up one legitimate question: what is the correct attitude towards stock market declines and crashes?

2 days ago 2 votes
Intelligentsia in power

On Bukharin's critique of the Austrian school and John Bates Clark

3 days ago 4 votes
Do you want to be a synonym?

I had a dinner with a friend tonight and we spoke of how the new era which has just begun makes lots of our knowledge, or the ways of thinking, about international relations, economic policies, poverty and wealth etc.

a week ago 15 votes
Capitalism of finitude: pessimism and bellicosity

Review of Arnaud Orain’s "Le Monde Confisqué"

3 weeks ago 14 votes

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What Was Smoot-Hawley, and Why Are We Doing It Again? Anyone? Anyone?

When most Americans think of the Smoot-Hawley Tariffs, they think of economic disaster. But if you ask why, most Americans may need a short refresher course. Below, you will find just that. Appearing on Derek Thompson’s Plain History podcast, Douglas Irwin (an economist and historian at Dartmouth) revisits the 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which raised […]

19 hours ago 2 votes
‘Scholars and Their Kin’ review

‘Scholars and Their Kin’ review JamesHoare Mon, 04/14/2025 - 09:00

19 hours ago 2 votes
What the World Will Look Like in 250 Million Years: Mapping the Distant Future

Most of us now accept the idea that all of Earth’s continents were once part of a single, enormous land mass. That wasn’t the case in the early nineteen-tens, when the geologist Alfred Wegener (1880–1930) first publicized his theory of not just the supercontinent Pangea, but also of the phenomenon of continental drift that caused […]

18 hours ago 2 votes
The Transition

The Great Awokening and the end of the cultural revolution

20 hours ago 2 votes
What Makes a Hero?

The Ancient Ideals of Heroism: Odysseus and Aeneas

13 hours ago 1 votes